The Hazards Vulnerability and Resilience Institute has been involved in numerous projects
since it began in 1995. For more information on any project listed below, please contact HVRI.
Projects by Topic
Building Resilience Against Climate Effects (BRACE)
Contributions to the Summary of Current Knowledge about Community Resilience
DRRC: Baseline Indicators for Monitoring Disaster Resilience in Rural Places
Mobile Geospatial Situational Awareness for Field and Command Staff during the Emergency
Response Phase
NASA REASoN Project
Rapid Flood Mapping by Enhancing Near Real-Time Satellite Imagery with Real-Time Gauge
and Twitter Data
Remote Sensing Hazard Guidance System
Remote Sensing Planning Tool
Tracking Airborne and Satellite Remote Sensing Collection Assets for Emergency Response
Phase
Baseline Methods for Reconstructing U.S. 19th Century Climatic Extremes from Historical
Data
Evaluation of Airborne LIDAR-derived Floodplain Mapping
Central Midlands Council of Governments Hazard Mitigation Plan
Geospatial Risk Assessment Support Protocols (GRASP)
Historic Inequities in Disaster Losses: Identifying Disaster-Prone Places
Historical Climate Data Catalogue
Historical Climatic Reconstructions of the Southeastern United States
Incorporating Medical and Social Vulnerability into an All-Hazards Assessment for
the State of Florida
National Center for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)
National Digital Clearinghouse for Hazard Event and Loss Data
SCEMD Mitigation Plan Risk Assessment Update 2018
South Carolina Atlas of Environmental Risks and Hazards
Web-based Risk Assessment Planning Project for the State of Florida
2011 South Carolina Hurricane Evacuation Study
Hurricane Matthew Evacuation Research
Identifying and Analyzing the Driving Forces of Hurricane Recovery for Disaster Stricken
Areas to Improve Long-term Planning
South Carolina Hurricane Evacuation Study: Behavioral Analysis
The Recovery Divide: Sociospatial Disparities in Disaster Recovery from Hurricane
Katrina along Mississippi’s Gulf Coast
Improving Drought Loss Accounting in SHELDUS®
Multi-scale Spatiotemporal Evaluation of Mitigation Effectiveness in Reducing Natural
Hazard Damage and Loss
Decision-making and Long-Lead Climate Forecasts
South Carolina Flood Losses
Spatial Data Needs and the Use of GIS and Remote Sensing in State-Level Hazard-Related
Offices
Chlorine Spill
Hurricane Impacts in Mississippi and Alabama
Hurricane Katrina Crisis Research at USC
Improving Tornado Warning Effectiveness and the Fujita Scale Assessment Process
Use of Spatial Data and Geographic Technologies in Response to the September 11 Terrorist
Attack
Collaborative Research: Measuring Social Vulnerability — Reducing Uncertainty and
Validating Indicators
Enhancing Social Vulnerability Mapping
Social and Place Vulnerability Methods and Application for Corps Planning
Social and Place Vulnerability Methods and Application for Corps Planning II: Technical
Analysis
Social Vulnerability Index 2020-2014
Social Vulnerability Mapping for the Southeast U.S. (OxFam)
Cascading Spatial Impact of Rainfall Extremes on Residents
Indirect Costs of School Closures Triggered by the 2015 Flash Floods
Leveraging Perishable Impact Data into Long Term Recovery Forecasting
Mapping River Erosion and Geomorphic Change Caused by an Extreme Flood
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Flood Impact by Integrating Satellite, VGI, and Social
Media Data: Rapid Assessment of the October Flood
[USC ] Other Campus Projects Related to SC Floods
Comparative Indicators of Hazards Vulnerability in Urban Areas
Place-Based Decision Support for Spatial and Temporal Transference of Risk and Hazards
Population Vulnerability Analysis, Spatial Social Science and GIS
Richland County Vulnerability Assessment
Shifting Terrorism Trends across Time and Space
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